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February 20, 2025

Urbain sets opening pace at TITC

Celebrating his first year as a full time professional racer at this year’s TITC, Awesomatix’s Lucas Urbain marked the occasion by setting the pace in the opening controlled practice for the legendary Bangkok based race. Over 3-consecutive laps it was very close at the top with Urbain fastest from his team-mate Marc Rheinard and the Axon of 2020 Champion Akio Sobue, the trio covered by just 0.06 of a second. On his debut for Infinity, Bruno Coelho kicked off his title defence with the 4th fastest time with the second of the factory Axon drivers Hayato Ishioka P5 and Ryosuke Yamamoto’s Infinity completing the Top 6. Last year’s Top Qualifier Ronald Volker got the 21st edition of the race underway with the 7th fastest time 6/10th off that set by Urbain, the German describing his pace so far as ‘not super fast’. Making his TITC debut and therefore finding himself in the third fastest heat for the 2 controlled practice rounds, unglued tyres was Michal Orlowski’s main issue in the first one as he had to pull off after 2-minutes in which he recorded the 8th fastest time.

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February 5, 2025

Awesomatix A800R Steel Chassis Conversion Set

Awesomatix has released a Steel Chassis Conversion Set for their popular A800R 1:10 Electric Touring Car. The release follows months of testing & development with the SCC set to be only offered as an option part rather than a forming a future full car kit option. Made of 1.2mm hardened spring steel, the chassis combines previously unmatched lower centre of gravity and excellent flex characteristics. Extensive refinement of the production process enabled the required chassis flatness and hardness to be achieved. The result is an incredibly long-lasting chassis that will outlast its carbon and aluminium counterparts due to being more wear resistant and able to retain adequate flatness for longer. The thinner chassis design requires specifically machined screws, redesigned bulkheads allowing the dampers to be spaced up to recover some lost up-travel and updated lower bumper support moulding. These items are all included in the Steel Chassis Conversion Set.

Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.net]

January 19, 2025

Rheinard opens ’25 touring car season with GP3F win

The 2025 international Electric Touring Car season got underway this weekend with Awesomatix’s Marc Rheinard taking the win at the annual GP3F race in France. Having held the overnight TQ in Longwy, Rheinard would secure the overall TQ for his Team Cayote powered A800R by recording a third TQ run in Sunday morning’s fourth and final qualifier. Behind the reigning European Champion, Mugen Seiki’s Ronald Volker, winner of the race in 2020, claimed P2 on the grid being the only other driver to go fastest in qualifying when he took Q3. Defending Champion Michal Orlowski put his Schumacher 3rd on the grid for the triple A-Main ahead of Awesomatix’s Lucas Urbain with former 1:8 Offroad World Champion David Ronnefalk the top Xray in P5. In the opening A-Main Rheinard entered the final lap leading from Orlowski but they made contact in the middle section of the track handing Urbain the win. In the next two encounters Rheinard would set the fastest lap in each to win A2 from Orlowski by 1.6-seconds and A3 from Volker by 8/10ths to secure the overall win. With his A1 win and P3 in A2 Urbain made it an Awesomatix 1-2 while Orlowski completed the podium ahead of Völker and Erik Dankel. In Stock, Xray’s Adam Izsay secured the TQ and win ahead of Awesomatix’s Lukas Ellerbrock with third going to new RC Maker signing Tim Benson.

Image: MRC Longwy [Facebook]

January 12, 2025

Another EWS win for Jefferies at Round 3

With the latest season of the popular & long running Essex Winter Series reaching the midway stage today it was the Awesomatix of Olly Jefferies that became the first double winner of the current season. In qualifying it was former British National Champion Kyle Branson who secured the overall TQ ahead of the Schumacher of reigning EWS Champion & Round 2 Elliott Harper with Jefferies, winner of the season opener third. The four rounds of qualifying produced four different TQ runs with the Xray of Harley Eldridge taking Q1, Branson Q2, Harper Q3 and Jefferies Q4. In the single A-Main Branson struggled with a tricky car allowing Harper to go to the front early on. Pushed hard by Branson a touch with 1-minute to go would unsettle Harper’s car allowing Jefferies to pass them both to take the win. In Stock Zak Finlay made it three wins from three races with Ben Moorey and Billy Fletcher joining him on the podium.

Image: Kyle Branson

January 11, 2025

Awesomatix PSSX Progressive Spring System

Awesomatix has released a number of new parts for its A800 touring car platform including their new PSSX Progressive Spring System. This is designed to add 30% progressivity into the originally linear action of SPR01S and SPR01 springs in all A700/A800 cars. An updated version of the previously known “PSS set”, the PSSX set comes with the new ST69X-30 Screw with wider cap that provides 30% progressivity across an increased range of suspension travel and suspension setups. All previous ST69 screw versions fit as well but are not included. With the PSSX set the initial action of spring is softer at the beginning of the compression and becomes progressively harder when the suspension get compressed during downtravel of the car. Our tests showed that the car with PSSX set at proper settings becomes more easy to drive and more consistent at low-med traction conditions and especially on outdoor asphalt tracks. In addition to the PSSX, Awesomatix has also released a new Rear Beam for its 1:12 car. For the A12X, this updated beam features an additional notch for easy track width measurement.

Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.net]

December 18, 2024

Vitor and Vezzetti crowned Brazilian National Champions

All Racing track in São Paulo hosted the recent Brazilian EP Indoor Championship for the 4th consecutive time, as the only fixed carpet track in Brazil, where Awesomatix’s Gabriel Vitor and Eduardo Vezzetti crowned National Champions. With 40 drivers competing in two categories, the event stood out not only for the competitiveness of the participants, but also for the high grip conditions provided by the hot and humid weather. The championship was divided into two main categories, Stock (21.5T) and Pro Stock (10.5T). In the Pro Stock category, Gabriel Vitor secured his first title in the fourth final, having won 3 of the first 4 heats. The podium in the category ended with Luiz Lima in second and Renan Gea, current champion of the category, in third. In the Stock category, Eduardo Vezzetti confirmed his favoritism by winning the first 3 finals with ease, securing his second championship, repeating the feat of 2022. The podium in the category was completed by Carlos Oliveira and Paulo Martins.

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December 1, 2024

Hebert and Lia win at U.S. Indoor Champs

The 44th running of the U.S. Indoor Champs Presented by Hobbywing saw Xray’s Keven Hebert defend his title in Modified Touring Car while Awesomatix’s Donny Lia took the win in 1:12 at the Cleveland, Ohio, classic. In Touring Car Qualifying, it was the fourth & final round of qualifying that proved the fastest round with Hebert 6/10ths of a second faster than Awesomatix’s 2022 Champion Sam Isaacs with team-mate Kemp Anderson securing P3 on the grid. With a single A-Main, Hebert set the fastest lap of the race to win by a 3.3-second margin over Isaacs with Anderson finishing a further 1-second back to complete the podium. In Mod 1:12 qualifying it was defending Champion Isaacs that took the overall TQ, his Awesomatix fastest in Q4 from MonTech NYGP winner Anderson with Lia third fastest, his best time coming in Q3. In the triple finals, Isaacs managed to convert in A1 as Lia got by Anderson for second but in A2 the Top Qualifier caught a corner that allowed Anderson to the front but he then had a mistake 2 and a half minutes in allowing young Stuart Mason to the lead ahead of Lia where he would stay to the finish. Bringing the 2024 edition of the World’s longest running RC race to a close, in A3 Isaacs had the early lead but under intense pressure from Anderson there was contact with the boards for Isaacs that broke his car and put him out of the race. With Anderson leading, as the race came to a close Lia started pushing him hard and on the last lap executed a great pass to take the win and the title. Mason would finish runner-up with final step on the podium going to Isaacs.

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November 10, 2024

Lauter ‘Spec’ World Champion after dominant display

Awesomatix’s Simon Lauter is the new ISTC ‘Spec’ World Champion, the German putting on a dominant display of driving at Finishline RC Raceway in California to secured the title in A2. Only the second running of the World Championship for the 17.5 Spec class, having finished runner-up to Alexandre Duchet 2-year ago at the inaugural event in Italy, Lauter made the trip to the US with just one goal in mind and executed a near perfectly campaign. Securing the TQ and winning A1 with ease, the back to back European Champion once again pulled clear of the field in A2 with one onlooker commenting that his race was the definition of the ‘perfect driving’. The only driver to top Lauter over the 6 qualifiers, Max Mächler would win A3 to make it a 1-2 for Awesomatix, the latter having given the manufacturer their first World title when he won the 1:12 Spec title in Florida last year. As the outgoing ‘Spec’ Champions Xray would complete the podium in Bakersfield with Jan Ratheisky, the German driver chasing home Mächler in A3 having taken P3 in the second A-Main after his body tuck in A1.

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